(urth) Orchid

[Gerry Quinn]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Mason" <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com>
Lee Berman wrote:
>
> I am not nearly as familiar with Long Sun as BotNS but I'll give it a 
> shot. In my opinion, Kypris'
> advice to Orchid is actually advice to herself. Her beloved Pas has been 
> deleted from Mainframe
> and now she must find another object to love.

Could be. I take it she really is trying to help Orchid, but she may
well be letting  her own case guide her thoughts. (Though what you say
brings in questions about the meaning of the series as a whole, which
I carefully haven't raised yet.)
>
> "Something" implying an object is a funny reference.

I don 't think 'something' is too odd; it just implies that the object
of her love needn't be a person. For Mint, for instance, it seems,
centrally,  to have been the city.

Mint gave up 'five very great things' to become a sibyl.  As a general, she 
lost more; in RttW she is confined to a wheelchair.  It is still not 
entirely clear what the object of her love was; what seems intensely clear 
is that she was no less born to serve than was Marble.

- Gerry Quinn